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Ghost is the only thing I use from Norton. Ghost is such a snap. Norton just bought out the people who used to sell it on Art Bell's AM radio program every night. I use this program called symon http://symon.da.ru/ This program lets you do anything you want with partitions. Then I make a 2 gig partition, then maybe a couple of 8 gig partitions to fill the drive. Then every successful step of your fresh install, save a ghost image of c: to d:. A fresh install of 98 with drivers only takes 320 megs. I have setup a printshop and burned a clean image on 2 cd's. Instead of 1 setup trying to do everything from 1 partition, you have your system stuff on your 2 or 3 gig c:, and keep all your data and mp3's on your d: or e: partitions. You can have 1 image for playing games, another for typesetting, another for 3Dstudiomax. You can drive yourself crazy trying to get all that working together. I can't imagine how to use 1.3 gig cpu. The only things that use that much performance are the newest, and Lara still kicks my *** on a 366. Lets see, you can move into the dorm with a 1.3 ghz high dollar screamer that you won't respect a year later, or you can move in with a 16 port router with 4 matching 500 mhz celly's OC'ed to 700 mhz, Beowulf cluster running HA-Linux on a ReiserFS. Then you can save money buying 4 at a time. OK, mister, if I buy 4 will you toss in 2 sticks of the 128 Dimms? Free shipping too?? I got my Pro's in the next room hooked to an old Aureal SQ2500 audiocard in a old dual pentium-pro box. My first build. sounds so good with the v2-400's. I'm not in that race.

HP has a easy rescue disk, get in the habit of backing up your data and downloads, you can just reload off the cd. Quicker to keep multi .gho images, 1 for work, 1 for play and 1 to trash. No matter how bad you bung it up, 10 min later, Back up and running. Plus they picked up and returned my notebook with a new mb in less than 4 full days. No cost to me.

Go with dell, they'll walk you thru all the reformats to you hearts content. Free phone support forever.

One of the reviews said it's a mute and not really an off switch.

I purchased a extended warrenty on my Klipsch that does a pickup if I have any problems. Its available thru a lot of dealers in var forms. vanns.com How much for the sony before shipping?

Take a sheet of newspaper and fold to the diminision of the 24" Sony, for $2400, the SGI 1600SW that uses the full 17" diag. for $1400. Then you can hold and compare the size. While you at it fold one for a 22" diamondtron tube and consider that you can get a 37"superbrite, 600 lines rez S-VHS monitor, with the change, that's gonna' look a lot better from the couch. Sorry, I see the sony is only $1900. After all, it's only till flat plazma display comes down next year.

Go to RadioShack and try the Pro35, they can be had online for $13 to $15 as the Koss KCX-PRO. I have not found a set of headphones that justify spending 3, 4, or 10 times as much.

Do you want a nice unit like the AD-300 made in Tiawan? or XDTS80 that you solder power plug to, does hardware dts and leaves AC3 to software decode. Open case, all the way. $70 ebay or something like the panasonic sh-500 whatever or a 500 watt reciever from egghead with good switching features with AC3, DTS, full, and small support, ect... $250- $300 I really hate to spend $300 to get the decoding of a $14 chip.

I'm not taking anything apart to see what chips are in my Klipsch. But I do LIKE to know about those kind of things. A nice PDF file of the schematics that I can print out and hang on the wall would be nice. I thought I could find something like a Sam's, but no luck. Can I get something a little more than the operators manual for the v2-400?

Amy, . Is there an amplifier in the preamp module that boosts the signal for the headphone jack, or is the signal amplified in the sub case then piped back to the headphone jack? when in doubt, ask Amy. Andy, . Do you have service manual or schematics for our fav. speakers? All I've found are the pics posted on this board.

If you can control the volume of your headphone jack you control the volume of the klipsch. The line out from your soundcard can only drive so-much. I'm hoping for a 4ch Boostaroo, I'm to cheap to buy 2. http://www.3dsoundsurge.com/reviews/boostaroo/boostaroo.html

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The only dif is some extra wire and an extra jack. . but there is a thing reviewed on 3dsoundsurge called the Boostaroo, that can run 3 headphones, at high volume, with no added distortion. I wish they had a 4ch mod.

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Fawwaz, . When anyone wants to upgrade, I keep the old parts to make an old beater system.(<200mmx) I don't sell these. You know those bad-*** kids that live in the neighborhood? You know, usually 10 to 14 years old. Load a few games, a midi set-up, a word processor, then set one up for the little chumps. If you're lucky they'll watch your back.

The V2-400 and the 4.1 both have twice the satellite power of the 2.1, and I think the sub comparison is unequal. You will have to look around to find any V2-400's in stock, or wait for the 4.1's to arrive. I guess that most of us that have the V2-400's are happy with our sets. Some having had problems with hissing and crackles, have exchanged the high gain preamp for the low gain replacement. You can also buy the cp1 preamp that ships with the 4.1's. If you can find the v2-400 for $249 with free shipping I'd go for it, but you may have to deal with a preamp problem. It is reported that v2-400 had stronger bass? Recent post. Someone else says the cp1 improves the bass.

Why have the searches been limited to the last three months? I know that KBlair has posted info about the XDTS80 decoder, but since I can't search last years' post I would have to first search all posts for KBlair, then randomly hunt for the post that mentioned the equipment. I guess it gives people something to do, duplicating all the questions every year.

What brand is your sound card?

If you get the 4.1's you will find a way to use 4 speakers, even if its just a splitter or a Boostaroo. The 4.1 has 60 watts per satellite. the 2.1 has 35 watts per sat. The 4.1's sub has 160 watts driving 2 6.5" woofs that work against each other for stiffness.(just repeating someone) The 2.1 has 1 woofer driven by 60 or 70 watts. May not compare as the 2.1's watts are a different load.

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Sony, Mitsubishi, ViewSonic, all use contractors to assemble their monitors. You really have to look at specs to get a good comparison. Your ViewSonic has a tube that is common to other monitors that have short neck CRTs. I got in the habit of looking up components and factories to find 19" Diamondtron tube monitors for $217. You will see this monitor with a name on it at a much higher price.

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I'll bet you didn't checkout the diamondtron tube thats in the miradex 1099DA 19". You can spend what you want, but compare it to the $217 cheapie. The sony is at least $500 out your pocket? http://www.miradex.com/product.asp?m_cat=s_hardware&cat=monitor&action=show&id=915_monitor

I've thought about getting one of the recievers from the eggheag auctions just to have the switching and DTS decoding. I have seen the Yahama Rciever go for $240.

The full versions of Win-DVD or Power-DVD will do the AC3 decoding and 4ch mix down. Even the software with my AWI Radeon only has s/pdif pass-thru or stereo mixdown.